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  2. Paleobotany - Wikipedia

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    Macroscopic remains of true vascular plants are first found in the fossil record during the Silurian Period of the Paleozoic era. Some dispersed, fragmentary fossils of disputed affinity, primarily spores and cuticles, have been found in rocks from the Ordovician Period in Oman, and are thought to derive from liverwort- or moss-grade fossil ...

  3. Wattieza - Wikipedia

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    The fossilized grove of "Gilboa stumps" discovered at Gilboa, New York, were described as Eospermatopteris, though the complete plant remained unknown. These fossils have been described as the earliest known trees , standing 8 m (26 ft) or more tall, resembling the unrelated modern tree fern .

  4. Waterloo Farm lagerstätte - Wikipedia

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    Waterloo Farm in 1988. Waterloo Farm main fossil site in 1999 preceding roadworks. Robert Gess, main researcher of Waterloo Farm Lagerstätte. The Waterloo Farm Lagerstätte is an approximately 360 million year old Famennian (latest Devonian) fossil-rich locality of the Witpoort Formation (Witteberg Group, Cape Supergroup) in Makhanda (former Grahamstown) within the Eastern Cape Province ...

  5. Paleoflora of the Eocene Okanagan Highlands - Wikipedia

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    The paleoflora of the Eocene Okanagan Highlands includes all plant and fungi fossils preserved in the Eocene Okanagan Highlands Lagerstätten.The highlands are a series of Early Eocene geological formations which span an 1,000 km (620 mi) transect of British Columbia, Canada and Washington state, United States and are known for the diverse and detailed plant fossils which represent an upland ...

  6. Millions of ancient fossils were discovered underneath a ...

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    The fossils include unique species of fish that had never been found in the area before. The discovery is reshaping views on California geology with the possibility of extinct islands.

  7. Paleobiota of the London Clay - Wikipedia

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    Fossil seed capsules of the genus Euphorbia, found in London Clay. A list of prehistoric and extant species whose fossils have been found in the London Clay, which underlies large areas of southeast England. Plant fossils, especially seeds and fruits, are found in abundance and have been collected from the London Clay for almost 300 years. [1]

  8. Arizona is full of fossils. Here's where to look for ancient ...

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    Stromatolites are some of the oldest fossils in the park at over 1 billion years old. South Kaibab Trail: This is one of the most popular trails and if you look carefully you will notice fossils ...

  9. Fossil history of flowering plants - Wikipedia

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    The fossil history of flowering plants records the development of flowers and other distinctive structures of the angiosperms, now the dominant group of plants on land.The history is controversial as flowering plants appear in great diversity in the Cretaceous, with scanty and debatable records before that, creating a puzzle for evolutionary biologists that Charles Darwin named an "abominable ...